VI. SELECTED WEATHER RELATED SOURCES

ACMAD
- Centre African des Applications de la Meteorologie pour le DeveloppmentACMAD's objective is to contribute
to sustainable development in Africa. The main activities are short and
medium range weather forecasting, climate watch, seasonal forecasting,
and training of African meteorologists in new techniques and technologies.
ACMAD is composed of 53 member states, and is headquartered in Niamey,
Niger Republic.

Chuck's
Weather PageInformation about GOES and polar orbiting
satellites, and about WEFAX equipment. Some weather images available on-line
at this site, http://www.aa6g.org/weather.html.

Dundee
UniversityArchive of NOAA AVHRR/HRPT images of
Europe for the last 15 years, with on-line access to lower resolution images
(Quicklooks) for the last six months, and a full resolution data service
on request. The site is located at http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk.

Earthwatch
Inc.A good source of weather information
and imagery. Examples of images available on-line are infrared images of
U.S. Hurricanes, 3-D images of Europe and 3-D cloud imagery of South America.
Located at http://www.earthwatch.com.This
company should not be confused with EarthWatch, the satellite remote sensing
start-up company.

European
Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF)The European Centre for Medium-Range
Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is an internationalorganization
specializing in medium-range weather forecasting and climatology.
It is supported by 18 European Member States. Site is in English,
French and German.

INTELLiCast
Home pageAn online guide to weather and skiing
information worldwide from NBC News located at http://www.intellicast.com.
Site also includes information about the network's news programming and
supplies updated information about current news items worldwide.

Interactive
Weather BrowserAt this site one can get current weather
conditions about the United States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba by selecting
the area on a clickable map or by selecting the location from a list of
cities and regions. Located at http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~geo/wxmap.html.

Julian
Onions' Various Weather Sources Home PageThis site, http://www.nexor.com/places/weather.html,
has on-line weather images collected by Meteosat in JPEG format . Images
are held at Nottingham University, England. The site also has general information
about all types of weather satellites.

Karlsruhe
University (Weather Central)Located at http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/,
this site produces relatively quick and complete access to European and
Middle Eastern weather images derived from European satellites.

Meteosat
images over EuropeThis site, http://w3.gkss.de/english/Satellitenanlage/meteosat_loops/,
is a repository for Meteosat images over Europe.

National Weather
AssociationA strong site for meteorologists. Includes
links to worldwide weather information, severe weather, weather service,
weather talk, etc--even a daily Martian weather report. The site, http://www.nwas.org,
has an interactive weather information network. One can also get weather
maps through e-mail.

NOAA
Severe Storm Spotters GuideLocated at http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/svr/home.rxml,
this site includes helpful diagrams and more than 150 photos.

Pacific
Satellite ImagesPacific satellite images from the Geostationary
Meteorological Satellite, the groundstation at Himawari, Japan, and from
NOAA environmental satellites. The site is located at http://www.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SatIAN/Welcome.html.

Penn
State University Weather PagesVery useful site for weather information.
Forecasts of temperatures, wind, precipitation and other parameters are
available for numerous cities, mostly in the northeastern US. Includes
QTVR movies of hurricane, sea-surface temperatures and topographic data,
as well as hourly weather statistics and ship weather reports from around
the world. The URL for the site is http://www.ems.psu.edu/wx/index.html.

Reading
UniversityThis site provides world-wide weather
images from many sources on the internet. The images are accessible by
region (Asia, Europe, etc.) and are derived from polar orbiting satellites,
then converted to a standard format. An archive is held for 10 days and
updated regularly. Various animation files of weather are classified by
continents and interesting weather data. The URL for this site is http://typhoon.rdg.ac.uk/Data/Global/global.html.

Space
Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-MadisonThe University of Wisconsin Space Science
and Engineering Site is located at http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/index.html.
It offers near real-time daily browser for GIF images from GOES series
satellites. Antarctic and global composite images, weekly SST, forecast
images, half-hourly updates of GOES-8 visible light, infrared and water
data.

UNIDATALocated at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu,
this site houses sophisticated training, software and educational projects
aimed at universities interested in upgrading their meteorological programs.

University
of Hawaii Satellite and Oceanography SiteAVHRR images within the radius
of reception of the university's HRPT station and from a station in San
Diego. The processed images are available usually within 30 minutes of
NOAA-12 passages. GMS images of the full GMS coverage area are available
via http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu.

Virginia
Climatology Office Home PageLocated at http://climate.virginia.edu/,
the site has good links to NOAA, and has much local DC and VA weather data
as well as some satellite images in GIF form.

WeatherNet
4. NBC4 Weather ChannelWashington, D.C. weather information.
Weather Net is a national leader in innovative web and television broadcast
use of weather imagery. It has good doppler weather information with links
to NASA and many other weather-related and imagery sites.

The Weather
ChannelLocated at http://www.weather.com,
this site is similar to it's television counterpart.

World
Meteorological OrganizationIncludes a list of national weather
organizations and their respective web or gopher servers. Also contains
NMHS database information.Located
at http://www.wmo.ch/web-en/member.html.